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‘I’m serious!’ I managed, laughter worming out of my throat no matter how hard I willed it to stay down. ‘Whatever you want, I’m ready to do it. Should I make a dramatic declaration to the entire Alliance? Write the phoenix elders that I’ve been shagging you for ages? Tell Agenor he’ll either have to add you to the family tree immediately or cut me out of it?’ He only laughed louder – then coughed, then laughed again, amusement shuddering down to the very tips of his wings. There it was, finally, that explosive joy I’d waited for, rising on his face like the unstoppable tide. ‘Em …’
finally!!
‘And you …’ He wavered for a moment, in spite of his visible determination to pull himself together to at least a semblance of his usual composure. ‘And you’re saying you actually … like him.’ ‘I’m saying I love him to pieces,’ I pleasantly corrected. ‘Gods help me,’ he muttered, burying his face in his hands. ‘Because you’ve seen what he looks like?’ I scoffed. ‘No. Because he’s the only damn person in this world who’s never tried to make me more than I can be or less than I am. Because he makes me laugh when I’m frightened. Because he knows what it’s like to be everyone’s weapon. Because he
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‘Don’t you dare.’ Her voice had gone low and hoarse, the words spat into Halbert’s face as he dazedly prodded his reddening cheek. Her hands had balled into white-knuckled fists. ‘Don’t you dare call my daughter a fae whore ever again, you fucking swine.’ The world stuttered.
whaaaaat??
‘Let’s go kill the bitch, then,’ I said.
‘No, that’s fine,’ Rosalind wryly said next to me, in Faerie again. ‘I could come back next week, if that fits your schedule better, Lord Protector?’ Deafening silence answered us. I had to bite my lip not to laugh out loud. ‘Agenor?’ The tent cloth was ripped aside without warning, so violently the frame nearly came down in its entirety.
~aaahhhh!!! such a moment!
His eyebrow quirked dangerously. ‘I don’t think my face is what you’re looking for, then, cactus.’
lol
Gods have mercy – I should have seen it coming, and yet there was no keeping my voice down at that image, the grand and serene Cobalt Court restored in all its glory, proudly displaying a ten-foot glass phallus straight above its entrance. ‘We are not—’
